The Marketing Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

47 pm Facebook and India Jump to Comments Our team recently made a visual presentation which talks about ‘Facebook’ and its penetration in India. Alltop Social Media said: Facebook and India [link] Social-Media.alltop [.] I believe in the principle of sharing information. We would be glad to help.

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The Marketing Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Home About In the Media Building a People Centric Organization A Study on How Business Entities in India are Using Facebook September 7, 2010.5:43 If your brand has a website, you would definitely want to analyze its performance in terms of visitor traffic, its navigation patterns, where the visitors are coming from etc.

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Harp Interactive

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

When you search-optimize and add relevant social media platforms like YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn (etc) to your media mix the result is far greater than if you had used them as un-optimized channels, independently at different times! If you have an established brand then the brand name should be in the URL .

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The Marketing Blog

APRIL 18, 2010

47 pm Facebook & India Jump to Comments This is a statistical post, which collates data from various blog-posts, press-releases and news sites. The objective is to analyze the usage trends for one of the biggest sites on the Internet – Facebook and world’s second most populous country – India. growth in India.

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The Marketing Blog

MARCH 2, 2010

02 am Facebook vs Twitter (A Comparison) Jump to Comments With over 40,000 tweets per minute and new-user registration growth rate of 1500%, you would expect Twitter to give a close fight to the social networking giant Facebook. Distribution Platform :: Facebook Facebook dominates on its own platform with about 72k (92.6%) reactions.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

APRIL 27, 2010

One of the biggest challenges for organizations today is managing the flow of information about their brands, products, and services that occurs in social media channels, including microblogs (such as Twitter), social networking sites (such as Facebook), blogs, and online forums. Share this on Facebook. Tweet This!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 13, 2008

Such was the case for this Digg story , which compared multiple web hosting companies and watched as these hosts handled the traffic spikes that resulted from the Digg effect. Digg is the social media network of tech geeks, and the Digg statistics should not be too surprising: 39% of Diggers publish their own blog.

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Firebelly

MARCH 23, 2010

I also promised to share results from that report regarding why people become fans of businesses on Facebook in a future post. I also promised to share results from that report regarding why people become fans of businesses on Facebook in a future post. The number one reason people "fan" businesses on Facebook? And here it is.

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The Marketing Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

45 pm Facebook will surge ahead in India Jump to Comments I was just reading an interesting news-story, published in today’s edition of Economic times. It compares Facebook & Orkut in India. The story which quotes data from Vizisense.com , predicts that inside 7 months Facebook should be able to overtake Orkut.

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 26, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk An Early Look at Facebook Open Graph Protocol Integration on News Sites by Adam Sherk on April 26, 2010 There has been a lot of news and reaction around Facebook’s new additions to the Facebook Platform: Social Plugins, the Open Graph protocol and the Graph API.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 11, 2010

One of the biggest challenges for organizations today is managing the flow of information about their brands, products, and services that occurs in social media channels, including microblogs (such as Twitter), social networking sites (such as Facebook), blogs, and online forums. Share this on Facebook. Tweet This!

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Bill Hartzer

OCTOBER 12, 2009

MH Group Communications and Forum Strategies & Communications have released a new study called “Luxury Auto Brands and their Presence in Social Media&# that is a comprehensive analysis of luxury auto brands and their presence within social networks.

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Saying It Social

JULY 13, 2010

Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials How To Promote You Facebook Page URL on Your Personal Profile Facebook doesn’t make this easy. Now, Facebook says, “No more profile boxes for you!&# Come on Facebook make up your mind already! Now you are set.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 16, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk JVC Facebook Page Sweepstakes a Big Success. But Does it Violate Facebook Guidelines? But does it violate Facebook’s promotions guidelines? Which part of the Facebook guidelines JVC USA is violating was not specified. Apparently it does.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Which reminds me of what Eric Schmidt recently said – that every 2 days we create as much information as we did from the beginning of time up to 2003. Which is similar to Google in the sense that we know what and how Google does what it does but we also know their mission is to “index the worlds information&# ! Tweet This!

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Webbiquity SMM

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Both are primarily focused on brand awareness, credibility building and image enhancement. In this example, a press release is distributed online, posted to the company’s Facebook and Twitter updates, and used to create a social media release (using a tool such as PitchEngine ). Share this on Facebook. Share this on Bebo.

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Firebelly

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Social Search Optimization A search engines ultimate mission is to serve the most relevant information it can. Here are 5 articles to help you understand social searchs relevancy to your business. Here are 5 articles to help you understand social searchs relevancy to your business.

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Saying It Social

JUNE 3, 2010

Own your brand’s social presence: If you don’t create official channels online, it’s only a matter of time before your customers/clients do it for you and create their own profiles and communities around your brand. It’s important to claim your brand name across all the major social media platforms.

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The Marketing Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

11 am India’s Buzziest Media Brand Jump to Comments Times of India has been given the ‘Buzzy 10 Award’ for catering to the consumer in a complete 360 degree way. I believe in the principle of sharing information. Home About In the Media Cab Drivers as Word-of-Mouth Marketers?

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Webbiquity SMM

DECEMBER 21, 2010

From a pure lead generation / ROI standpoint, this skepticism isn’t entirely unjustified; research from earlier this year showed that branding metrics (increased brand exposure, webs traffic, email subscribers partnerships)—not strict revenue or ROI measures—topped the list of benefits that b2b marketers realized from social media activities.

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Saying It Social

JUNE 3, 2010

Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials How to Set Your Facebook Privacy Settings If You Don’t Want Your Personal Profile Searchable Why would you want to do this? Under Basic Directory Information click on View Settings. You’re done.

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Webbiquity SMM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

What do these trends mean for the future of news gathering and information delivery? David Koretz offered one vision recently on MediaPost, writing: The news organizations of tomorrow will no longer be loud-mouthed pundits espousing a barely informed worldview. Examples range from Google News and Yahoo!

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The Marketing Blog

JULY 23, 2008

37 am Marketing, Social Media & Branding Blogs in India Jump to Comments What XML feed of some of the best Social-media, Marketing and Branding blogs in India Why Thoughts inspired by Age of Conversation’s Douglas Karr. I believe in the principle of sharing information. The list has just begun.

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Webbiquity SMM

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Facebook, Twitter and even newer tools like Quora may be sexier and get more attention, but blogs are the workhorses essential to making social media marketing work. Increased search engine visibility, targeted traffic and enhanced brand image are just a few of the benefits of business blogging. Share this on Facebook.

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 23, 2013

To get a better sense of the situation I pulled StumbleUpon referral figures from 2010-2012 for a group of 47 news and content sites that we work with at Define Media Group , primarily magazine brands. For confidentially reasons I am not able to reveal the specific titles, but they are all well-known brands from major publishers.

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 24, 2011

Display a feed of brand-related comments from a variety of social networks on your website? Search for a brand name or keyword across all of the most popular social networks at once? A handy way to supplement your email contact list with information about those prospects from the most popular social networks. twebevent.

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Webbiquity SMM

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

of the Navy, Office of Information at U.S. Share this on Facebook. Share this on Bebo. Subscribe to the comments for this post? Share this on del.icio.us. Share this on FriendFeed. Post on Google Buzz. Share this on LinkedIn. Share this on Mixx. Share this on Reddit. Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 16, 2010

You must keep a constant eye on mentions of your brand, your products and your services in order to survive in this market landscape. Both of these situations provide an opportunity to reach out with an offer of assistance, information, or even a free demo or sample. But its worth it if that question is so relevant to your brand.

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Firebelly

JULY 30, 2010

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « YouTube Tuesday: The Social Network Trailer | Main | Ball Memorial Hospitals Facebook Nightmare » July 30, 2010 3 Stories That Rocked The Social Media World This Week Below are the top 3 stories that rocked the social media world this week. It’s natural and it makes sense.

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Idaconcpts

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Good, funny writing helps us capture the kind of brand evangelists who will email the deal to their friends. The third paragraph provides any contextual information on the business that is useful and interesting, but not directly related to the experience someone would have if they purchased the deal. Share this on Facebook.

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Webbiquity SMM

AUGUST 9, 2010

Measuring the ROI of social media is challenging for several reasons, the most significant of which is the problem of “last click attribution;&# just because a sale or lead “came from&# Twitter or Facebook as the last click doesn’t necessarily mean that site deserves all the credit. Influence: a.k.a.

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Webbiquity SMM

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Then include text links back to specific pages on your website, e.g. linking a term like records management software back to an informational page devoted to that topic. If a company has a quality Twitter following, its Twitter account is likely to appear in the top five results in branded searches. Share this on Facebook.

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Twist Image

JANUARY 8, 2011

Answers can be voted up and down (ala Digg ) and you have the ability to follow the individuals and topics that are of interest to you. I still get the old, "Twitter just sounds stupid to me," or "why would anybody want to post all of their personal information on Facebook ?" It's called Quora. albert sheu.

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 22, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk How to Identify Your Own Top Trends by Adam Sherk on December 22, 2009 Yesterday Facebook shared its Top Status Trends of 2009 , providing insight into what terms most commonly occurred in users’ status updates. main profiles, personas, individual staff members, etc).

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 2, 2010

And 85 percent believe companies should not just present information via social media, but use it to interact and become more engaged with them. And the payoff for such engagement is evident in the 53 percent who already say they have developed a stronger connection to a brand through social media encounters. Share this on Facebook.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 18, 2010

Your tweets, posts and comments should all be coordinated to meet the ultimate goal, which is to establish trust, build your brand, and increase sales. Does your brand need a makeover? It introduces your brand Is your company new? It expands your reach Even an established brand may be missing out on potential customers.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Since I’ve been comparing major news sites in variety of areas ( Facebook and Twitter impact; YouTube and new Digg activity; site speed and domain authority , among others) I thought I’d look at overall social media engagement too. These points are combined into a total engagement score (for more information see What is Engagement?

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